C++ Developer - Digital Assets

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Job Description

The firm is a global trading firm with a strong presence in traditional finance, expanding into crypto and DeFi. As a C++ Software Engineer, you will join the core engineering team to design, code, test, and optimize its proprietary, low-latency trading system. This role involves developing ultra-low-latency platforms, implementing trade execution solutions, and optimizing system performance. The firm is known for its collaborative, high-performance culture, providing essential liquidity in financial markets, and fostering continuous innovation.
Must have:
  • Collaborate on developing ultra-low-latency trading platform with market data delivery and order submission subsystems.
  • Design and implement state-of-the-art trade execution and connectivity solutions.
  • Be part of the algorithmic trading strategies team, impacting automated trading algorithms.
  • Improve system performance by optimizing network access, hardware utilization, and programming execution.
  • Stay on top of updates to exchange protocols.
Good to have:
  • Statistics
  • Large-scale data processing systems
  • Machine learning
  • Grid-based computing
Perks:
  • Limited flexibility for working from home
  • Dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Quick feedback loop in research, development, and deployment
  • High responsibility and support for impact
  • Flat structure
  • Open, collaborative culture

Job Details

The firm has a strong presence in traditional Finance and has been expanding into crypto and DeFi over the last years. Through its overseas affiliates, the firm provides liquidity and trades on many cryptocurrency exchanges and DeFi protocols.

As a C++ Software Engineer, you‘ll be joining and shaping the future of our core engineering team. You will design, code, test, and optimize our proprietary, low-latency trading system. The right candidate for this role will be comfortable working autonomously, making decisions, and working in a fast-paced, flat team structure.

Your Core Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate on developing our highly competitive, ultra-low-latency trading platform consisting of market data delivery and order submission subsystems
  • Design and implement state-of-the-art, industry-leading trade execution and connectivity solutions
  • You will be part of our algorithmic trading strategies team that is responsible for all automated trading algorithms so that your experience and knowledge will have direct impact on our production
  • Improve the system performance by optimizing network access, hardware utilization, and programming execution
  • Stay on top of updates to exchange protocols

Your Skills and Experience:

  • You have a Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or a related field
  • You have excellent programming skills using C++ in a Linux (or Unix-like) environment
  • You possess the ability and desire to write simple, well-structured and clean code that is easy to maintain
  • You have in-depth knowledge of low-level network and system programming and have ideally experience in developing low-latency systems
  • You have a solid grasp of computer science, algorithms, memory-, and concurrency models, CPU-architecture, operating systems, networks, and performance optimization
  • Experience in statistics, large-scale data processing systems, machine learning and/or grid-based computing is a big plus
  • No finance background is necessary or expected.

Location and Office Culture

  • Office in Zug, Switzerland
  • Note that this is an onsite role, with some but limited flexibility for working from home
  • You can expect a dynamic, fast-paced environment that delivers a steady stream of challenges and opportunities
  • One of the most exciting aspects of the job is our quick feedback loop in the research, development and deployment of strategies
  • We give people lots of responsibility and the support they need to make an impact from day one
  • We promise you a flat structure and an open, collaborative culture that stimulates the sharing of ideas, knowledge and technology between our teams and offices

About Us

The firm is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, it has been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across its offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by a uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and a commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying trading strategies, the firm dares to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

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